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Monday, March 25, 2013

Book of Shadows: Candle Colors and their Magickal Purposes

Candle Color
Correspondences

Pink: Love, compassion, calm, peace, attraction,
friendship, happiness, relaxation. Pink can be burned to for rituals designed
to improve self-love. Ideal for weddings, hand-fastenings and all forms of
union.

Yellow: Critical Thinking, study, purification, luck,
confidence, divination, communication, eloquence, travel, Money*. Yellow is the
color of the element Air. Yellow be burned during rituals to heighten
visualization abilities. Program a yellow candle to stimulate your conscious
mind and burn it before studying for any purpose, let it burn during your studies.
*Money is here associated with yellow because of the association with Air and
Lord Hermes/Mercury, god of merchants and trade.

Red: Courage, strength of will, power, passion, lust,
passionate love, anger, maintaining health, bodily strength, physical energy,
sex, protection and defensive magick. This is the color of the element Fire.
Red is associated with life/death since it is the color of blood.

Blue: calm, meditation, blessings, healing, psychic,
peace, patience, happiness. Blue is the color of the element Water. Blue is
associated with the ocean, all water, the realms of sleep including dreams.

Purple: purification, blessings, extreme psychic and
spiritual energy, protection, justice, power, extreme healing energy used for
severe illnesses and injury, meditation. Purple candles can be burned to
enhance spiritual activities and to increase your magickal power. Purple is
associated with the Higher Self and is the color of the element Spirit.

White: protection, purification, all purposes. White
contains all colors. It’s linked to the Moon. White candles are usually
specifically burned for purification and protection rituals, but white candles
can be used to substitute any color and can be used for any magickal purpose.

Black: Banishing negativity, absorbing negativity,
protection. Black is the absence of color, in magick, its representative of the
night and of outer space. Black candles can be burned for casting out baneful
energies or to absorb illness and nasty habits.